Trailor Choir concert

this is Taylor at about 9pm......ear plugs in and sleeping hard!

the concert was to benefit the Deanna Glossup Foundation, which was started in honor of Deanna who lost her battle to childhood cancer. It is a great foundation!

this was the first thing they saw at the concert

Rachel's first haircut!

the pics are in the wrong order but I decided since Rachel's shortest length of her hair was to her chin that we would get it bobbed and oh my it is sooooo precious!!!

look at this goofy girl with me drying her hair!

Daddy turned 39!!! Us with cousin Emma. We are at our rental house while renovating!! Can't wait to move, and yes that's the kitchen table in the living room, no other place for it!

the after pics.....

and before.....

August....new beginnings and special visits!

Visiting with Taylor's foster brother Lee as they drive through AL

Since the last time we got to see them Lee and Taylor both have new sisters Rachel and Francie!! And Lee and Francie are waiting on a new baby brother!!!!!! (uh..yeah...we're done!)
Lee was taller last time and now Taylor has caught back up!

Taylor's kindergarten teacher Ms. Nita!

fishing at Brian's pond. First fish Rachel caught! She couldn't quit checking it out to look at the camera...I took several and everyone one she is really checking that fish out!!

Taylor faught to get this one in.

Taylor's first day of school with his Bumble Bee backpack, (which he calls pack pack!)

First day of school! Look at my precious boy!

Taylor's 6th Birthday party!

celebrated once again with cousins Emma, Kirsten, Matthew and Olivia

took a long weekend to Chattanooga, Raccoon Cave mining for treasures.

Lake Winnie Amusement park, it was sooooooo hot!!

Raccoon cave was 65 degrees...awwwwwww!

spent one night in a cabin at a KOA and Rachel got to fish for the first time

and the pool was great!

Here is aunt Susan's cabin right next to ours!

Seoul, Korea

James had the awesome opportunity to go to Seoul, Korea with his mom, sister and niece for a week in June. James and his sister had never been and they got to meet a few family members and see the great history of Korea. Their mom is staying a month, so she is still there.

Their first meal in Korea.....I guess they just needed something familiar :))

view from their hotel

view from their hotel

James' mom, one of her nephews (who is 1 year older than her), and her nephews wife and son. No furniture to sit on in their home, you sit on the floor.

The hotel James and Susan stayed at in the Gang Nam area of Seoul.

Called the Freedom Bridge, close to the DMZ(demilitarized zone) between North and South Korea. People place ribbons on the bridge in remembrance of.

train kept as reminder from Korea War

Located at the DMZ, in hopes of reunification one day.

A palace they toured, this is during the changing of the guard.

At the palace.

put on roofs to ward away evil spirits....I think.

This was the princesses personal garden at the palace, because once she became princess she was not allowed to leave the palace.

A very large Buddha at the temple.

at the buddhist temple

at Lotte World (like Disney)

The best dinner they had in Korea......maybe ever. Family took them to a restaurant.

The did a boat tour one night and this was a bridge they went by.

a beautiful Hanbok for Rachel

and one for Taylor

The Inchian Korea Airport.